Social Security Administration

About Social Security Administration

These guys have your number. Or at least you better hope they
do. The Social Security Administration (SSA) pays retirement,
disability, and survivors benefits to workers and their families.
The SSA also issues Social Security numbers and administers the
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program from more than 1,400
offices around the country, including its regional headquarters in
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, New York,
Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. The SSA operates
primarily with an annual federal budget of about $13 billion and
some $66 billion in contributions from workers. President Franklin
D. Roosevelt created Social Security and the administration in
1935.

Operations

About 40 million people visit the SSA's field offices and more
than 37 million people call the agency daily for filing claims and
asking questions. The SSA pays benefits to about 67 million people
and issues more than 16 million new and replacement social security
cards.

Geographic Reach

Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, the company has more than
1,400 offices in the US. SSA also operates an extensive
international program to service the needs of Social Security
beneficiaries living abroad.

Strategy

The SSA's President's 2017 budget of $13.1 billion will allow
the agency to build a workforce to execute its multi-year plan to
eliminate the hearings backlog and invest in its IT infrastructure.
The money will also be used to expand its efforts to prevent and
deter fraud by adding new units to its Cooperative Disability
Investigation (CDI) program and to continue to support its SSA
fraud prosecutors.